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Show MOTHERS TO HAVE LARGERPENS10N UTAH LEGISLATURE COMES TO AID OF WIDOWS AND INCREASES IN-CREASES FUND. Amount Asked by Exposition Commission Com-mission for Exposition Expenses Shaved Down From $40,000 to $35,000. The Utah state senate had quite a busy day on February 8, following the week-end holiday. Four bills were passed, one killed and twenty-one new measures introduced. Mothers' pensions and the appropriation appro-priation for Utah exhibits at the California Cal-ifornia expositions were taken care of in two of the bills passed. A third is aimed to save the water department of Salt Lake City $G,0U0 a year by enabling it to collect water rentals from "dead beats," and, the fourth makes merchants and others who put out untrue advertisements guilty of a misdemeanor. The bill killed was Hansen's measure meas-ure allowing damages for trespass by cattle only when the ravaged land is surrounded -by fencing. The mothers' pension bill passed h of interest to Salt Lake county only. It amends the present mothers' pension pen-sion law by permitting counties boasting of 100,000 population or more to appropriate $20,000 annually for this purpose. Amid considerable debate, the amount asked by the exposition commission com-mission for Utah's participation at the San Francisco and San Diego fairs was shaved from $40,000 to $35,000. The house passed house bills 85, 86, 87, 88, 89 and 90 on February 8, in less than twenty minutes. The only debate on the bills took place when H. B. No. 86 was before the house. The seven bills were introduced by the judiciary committee and place building and loan associations, loan, trust and guaranty companies under the supervision of the state bank commissioner com-missioner and prescribe penalties for foreign corporations to fail to comply with Utah laws when doing business in the state. Thirteen new bills were introduced in the house on February 8, six passed and one killed. The shortest bill of this session cf the legislature is the universal eight-hour law bill introduced by J. Alex. Bevan of Tooele county. It cciitains exactly 100 words, including the caption and the body of the bill. If it should become law, no person will be required or permitted to work more than eight hours a day, except in case of flood, fire or damage to life o- property. Senator Don B, Colton proposes to make it a misdemeanor for a coal dealer to sell coal from one mine when another brand was ordered. His bill was referred to the committee on manufactures and commerce. President W. Mont Ferry introduced a bill in the senate which provides for the consolidation of banks and trust companies, either by joining or forming a corporation to take over both properties. The bill was held up pending revision to make it conform to the senate rule that amendments must have the new matter indicated. Radical changes in the state's livestock live-stock industry are proposed in a bill introduced in the upper house on February Feb-ruary 4 by Senator J. W. Thornley of Davis county. The bill proposes to abolish the board of sheep commis-ssioners commis-ssioners and the live stock board and combine their functions in a newly-created newly-created state board of animal industry. indus-try. "By this combination," said the introducer in-troducer of the bill, "the state will save something like $11,000. Two years ago the sheep commission received re-ceived an appropriation of about $22,-000 $22,-000 and the live stock board an appro, priation of about $29,000. In this bill for the combined board we ask an appropriation of only $40,000. When it had been considerably amended following debate on the floor, the senate passed Eckerlsley's bill amending present laws regulating the practice of optometry. Principal changes in the present laws relate to the handling of funds by the examining exam-ining board in optometry. The' senate on February 4 passed Senate Bill No. 15, by Dern, an act compelling employers to report industrial indus-trial accidents to the commissioners of labor and statistics within one week. Two measures were approved by the house on February 4: House joint memorial No. 1, by Bevan, a me-morial me-morial to congress asking for the construction con-struction 'of a railroad from Denver to Salt Lake through the Uinta basin; and house joint memorial No. 3, by O'Neil, a memorial to congress asking that certain Indian grazing lands in Wasatch. Duchesne and Uinta counties coun-ties be included within the borders of the Ashley national forest. One bill was killed, one sent back to the committee and a third passed at the session of the Utah state senate sen-ate on February 2. The bill extinguished was Senator Charles Cottrell's humane measure prohibiting the public from fooling with airguns and toy pistols. But this is mere pleasantry the real aim of the bill was to prevent firearms from falling into the hands of unskilled and foolish youths. Practically all the data required by the retail merchants in their fight against trading stamps has been received, re-ceived, according to an announcement by the attorney in charge of the work, and the drafting of the bill for presentation presen-tation to the legislature will be begun at once. Incomes of persons living in Utah and persons who, though residents of other states, derive their incomes from Utah sources, are taxed under the provisions pro-visions of a bill introduced in the house by Representative nomas P. Page of Salt Lake. |